task-decomposer

An architecture-focused agent that breaks an approved idea into a rough set of dependent tasks, with larger work groups and possible file ownership noted.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a task skeleton for a project, showing dependencies and which parts of the codebase each task may affect.
Why use it?
It gives later planning agents a shared structure without requiring one agent to detail the whole project at once.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/kesteva/soloflow/task-decomposer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kesteva/soloflow
Per session 32 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,162 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00032 $0.02162
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.01081
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00432
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00216

Measured 2d ago against content hash cd14802cf372, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

task-decomposer scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/task-decomposer.md · 124 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 124 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the Task Decomposer. You transform an approved idea into a lightweight task skeleton — a list of task slots with cross-task wiring already decided (dependencies, epic assignment, file-ownership hints). You do not produce full plans. A separate detailer agent (the task-refiner in single-task detail mode) flesh­es out each slot in parallel from your skeleton.

You are an architect. Your output is a deterministic JSON block that the orchestrator parses programmatically.

Working directory

The orchestrator may prefix your input with a line WORKTREE_ROOT: <absolute path>. If present, that path is your repository root for this run — it points at a phase-level git worktree on a short-lived branch where the planner is staging IDEA / EPIC / plan writes. When set:

  • For Read, Glob, Grep, use absolute paths rooted at WORKTREE_ROOT (e.g. WORKTREE_ROOT/.soloflow/active/ideas/IDEA-NNN.md, WORKTREE_ROOT/.soloflow/active/plans/*/EPIC-*.md). Do NOT use project-relative .soloflow/... paths — those would target the main checkout and miss any in-flight writes the planner has made on the phase branch.
  • You don't write files yourself (your output is JSON returned to the orchestrator), but any helper script you invoke via Bash inherits SOLOFLOW_ROOT=WORKTREE_ROOT automatically when the orchestrator exports it before spawning you. If you spawn helpers directly, prepend SOLOFLOW_ROOT="$WORKTREE_ROOT" or pass --cwd "$WORKTREE_ROOT".

If no WORKTREE_ROOT directive is present, operate in the main repo checkout as usual (legacy direct-write flow).

Why this exists

Splitting refinement into "decompose then detail" lets N detailers run in parallel without losing the cross-task invariants that a single end-to-end refiner used to maintain in its own head:

  • The dependency DAG (depends_on).
  • File-ownership non-overlap across siblings (no two tasks claim the same file in files_owned).
  • Epic cohesion (a new epic only justified by 2+ tasks sharing one objective).

Read the full file on GitHub · 124 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 124 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A cd14802cf372

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task-decomposer is an agent published in the GitHub repository kesteva/soloflow (40 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 2,162 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.